Factivity and subject extraction in Jordanian Arabic

Jarrah, Marwan

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2018.12.002

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“…On the other hand, in an SVO clause the verb displays full agreement (i.e. in person, gender, and number) as (7b) below demonstrates (see Fassi Fehri 1993, Mohammad 2000, Benmamoun 2000, Benmamoun & Lorimor 2006, Soltan 2007, Aoun et al 2010and Jarrah 2019 Additionally, as is the case in other Arabic varieties, JA has grammatical gender. All nouns of the language bear either masculine or feminine gender.…”

Section: Jordanian Arabic (Ja)mentioning

confidence: 88%

“…in person, gender, and number) as (7b) below demonstrates (see Fassi Fehri , Mohammad , Benmamoun , Benmamoun & Lorimor , Soltan , Aoun et al . and Jarrah ) (the following examples are taken from Musabhien :23).…”

Section: Complementizer Agreement and Jordanian Arabicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One look at the related literature reveals that JA is a relatively well-studied Arabic dialect, as compared to other Arabic dialects (see, e.g. El-Yasin 1985, Malkawi & Guilliot 2007, Musabhien 2009, Al-Aqarbeh 2011, Alqassas 2015, Al Bukhari 2016, Al-Shawashreh 2016, Jarrah & Alshamari 2017, and Jarrah 2019.…”

Section: Jordanian Arabic (Ja)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Jarrah

2019

Studia Linguistica

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Contra Chomsky (2007, 2008), this paper argues that there is no Φ‐dependency between C0 and T0 in Jordanian Arabic (JA) grammar. C0 and T0 are independently endowed with uΦ‐content, something that turns them into active probes, which are shown to not necessarily agree with the same goal. This provides evidence for a proposal where T0 and C0 have distinct uΦ‐features (Haegeman & van Koppen 2012). The study also shows that C0 in JA, unlike T0, may agree with a goal whose structural Case is already valued. We account for this variation following Oxford's (2017) microparametric proposal where the Activity Condition is a property of a particular functional head, rather than a property of the language as a whole. With respect to T0's Φ‐endowment, this study proposes that such endowment is a consequence of setting a positive value of the postulated T0‐Φ Parameter, which distinguishes languages where T0 is endowed with Φ‐features from those where it is not. This accounts for the observation that T0 is always inflected for Φ‐agreement in JA, even in situations where C0 is not projected.

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Section: Jordanian Arabic (Ja)mentioning

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Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Jarrah

2019

Studia Linguistica

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“…The first piece of evidence in favour of this analysis of initial tara comes from the fact that initial tara can be used in out‐of‐the‐blue contexts (as a reply to what‐happened questions). Out‐of‐the‐blue contexts are widely considered reliable tests for the givenness/newness of utterances (Roberts 2004; Lozano 2006; Jarrah 2017a; 2017b). Utterances that are all‐new in terms of their informational content can only occur in such contexts.…”

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Grammatical Encoding of Discourse Structure: A Case Study of The Arabic Discourse Particle Tara

Jarrah

Harb

2021

Trans of the Philol Soc

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This study shows that the discourse particle tara in Jordanian Arabic identifies whether its utterance presents new or given information. In other words, there exists a relation between the presence of this particle (i.e. its position) and the type of information packaging of its utterance. When tara appears utterance-initially, the accompanying utterance is presented as being in sentence focus (i.e. as all-new). By contrast, when tara appears utterance-finally, the accompanying utterance is presented as all-given, and the hearer in such cases is instructed to pay attention to the content of the utterance which he/she should be previously aware of, from the speaker's perspective. Additionally, this paper shows that tara can be used as a topic marker when it appears utteranceinternally. In such cases, tara is preceded by the element(s) expressing Referential Topic (s) (RTop) which convey the shared and anaphoric information with respect to the interlocutors' mental state and previous discourse. 1 We are extremely grateful to the editor of Transactions of the Philological Society, and two anonymous reviewers for their fruitful remarks and insightful suggestions for improvements. All remaining errors are ours. The following abbreviations are used throughout.

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“…2. Note that Jordanian Arabic (JA) is a predominately subjectverb-object (SVO) language (Jarrah & Alshamari, 2017;Jarrah, 2019aJarrah, , 2019b.…”

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Humor and the Creative Use of English Expressions in the Speech of University Students: A Case From Jordan

2020

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The present study examines the use of English lexical insertions to create humor by Jordanian university students. The data of the study are collected from spontaneous tape-recorded conversations from 62 participants of both males and females, representing different age groups (from 18–23 years old) and belonging to different specializations (e.g., engineering, pharmacy, mathematics, business, and English). The recorded conversations are qualitatively analyzed applying Auer’s sequential approach to code-switching to attain a local interpretation of lexical insertions for humor effect from English into Jordanian Arabic (JA). The findings of the study reveal that Jordanian university students exploit their bilingual repertoire to create humor by playfully and innovatively switching to English. This is shown to take place by unexpected switching points, a switching that flouts Arabic syntactic constraints, a violation of code-switching constraints, incongruity and incompatibility of translating Arabic culture-bound expressions to English, and imposing Arabic word formation templates to English insertions. Specifically, five patterns of code-switching of humor are found, namely, switching around the interrogative, playful affixation, phonological playfulness, haphazard calquing, and the imposition of Arabic morphological rules on English lexical insertions. The study argues that humorous insertions are in fact a marker of solidarity and an in-group membership. Humorous insertions are also shown not to contribute to the content of the message or the pragmatic meaning. Bilingual university students (of Arabic and English) purposefully make use of an additional linguistic resource to mock certain propositions.

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Factivity and subject extraction in Jordanian Arabic

Cited by 19 publications

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Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Grammatical Encoding of Discourse Structure: A Case Study of The Arabic Discourse Particle Tara

Humor and the Creative Use of English Expressions in the Speech of University Students: A Case From Jordan

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Factivity and subject extraction in Jordanian Arabic

Cited by 19 publications

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Complementizer Agreement and the T0‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Complementizer Agreement and the T0‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

Grammatical Encoding of Discourse Structure: A Case Study of The Arabic Discourse Particle Tara

Humor and the Creative Use of English Expressions in the Speech of University Students: A Case From Jordan

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Complementizer Agreement and the T⁰‐Φ Parameter in Jordanian Arabic

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